Ooohhh, I can throw out some stats about Esmil Rogers to partially support the Accuscore 70% mark (which, admittedly, seems a tad high).

In his one start he faced the Giants and threw 92 pitches in 4 innings (21 batters faced). He only induced 2 swing and miss strikes. This against a team that swings and misses on 15% of all pitches. The Giants fouled off 37 pitches over those 4 innings (and looked at 18 called strikes).

So every Saturday that I go to the game (obviously when we are in town), I stand a big chance of having to see Haeger pitch? No cut on Haeger, but is a strange way to spend my summer, watching our 5th starter.

I was feeling good about my comments here, felt like I was in a groove a bit, starting to like my place on the team and then to my shock two of our skips Orel, Sax, told me I would be going down. (ba da dum)

So I am back to the Sons of Jamie Hoffman. I will do my best to contribute but I don't really get their serious banter and their commitment to sobreity. It seems so minor league to me.

I hope to join the team again some day but I learned a lot here. Sax taught me about the lessons of Chunk and pissing off Giant fans. Mr. C showed me how to embrace my inner drunk. Josh informed me of this new secret indie movie called Iron Man 2 and Dusty you taught me that an armpit has more meaning than I ever imagined.

I hope to be called up soon to rejoin the team. I hate GA.

Oh and watch Community it is worth the time and any bandwagon annoyance.

I know you're feeling down now, but we just can't have you riding the pine and not getting in some quality ABs. You'll be back up soon enough. Plus, you still have some options left but Quad7s is out of options.

I understand the move a bit more if Manny was Manny of a days of yore. But I think we really left fielder B. Plus he has speed off the bench and needs to get MLB experience if he is going to be the everyday guy next year.

watching the highlights from last night, everybody seemed pretty positive and even pumped up. There seemed to be more of a spirit than i've seen so far this season. In particular, Russ throwing out the dude in the 9th and the final K. Did anyone else notice this too, or was that just product of only watching Dodger highlights?

Russ was visibly pumped when he threw the runner out in the 9th. He made some shoulder shrug kind of gesture kind of like Gladiator asking whether the crowd was not pleased. I liked and noted his spunk. Maybe that will be a spark.